Joachim Kopka published on that a couple of years ago, and we have also most recently published a paper (\'the volatile compound BinBase database\' in BMC bioinformatics) where we had used the Adams MS library for matching our experimental spectra. retention times, in GC these are standardized ages ago as \'retention index\'. Retention indices differ a little bit between different columns of the same type when purchase from different vendors (e.g. the popular 5% diphenydimethylpolysiloxane columns from, say, J&W versus Restek), but those retention indices do not differ wildly and one can nicely use RI values from one column and apply it on a similar column of a different vendor. Worked nice!
